[Chat] For Dawna Cobb

[Linda Forlifer]

Dawna lives at the north end of the 2900 block.  The house at 2901 is
probably still there, what is now the Unity Church.

>>> langwidge at erols.com 2/27/2005 7:08:16 PM >>>
 Dawna, is this your house?

Christine Gray

-----Original Message-----
From: H-Net Discussion List on Maryland History and Culture
[mailto:H-MARYLAND at H-NET.MSU.EDU] On Behalf Of Mary Beth Corrigan
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 5:39 PM
To: H-MARYLAND at H-NET.MSU.EDU 
Subject: Query -- Levys in Roland Park, 1906-1929

From: Jessica Elfenbein [mailto:jelfenbein at ubalt.edu] 
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 2:38 PM
Subject: Query -- Levys in Roland Park, 1906-1929

        I am working on a project on the history of German Jews in
Baltimore
with the Jewish Museum of Maryland.  More particularly, I am using the
papers of the Lester and Eleanor (Kohn) Levy family as a lens for my
research.

        Julius Levy, a partner in the straw hat making firm MS Levy
and
Sons, is of particular interest to me.  While his parents and siblings
were
moving first to Eutaw Place and then to either Mount Washington,
Forest
Park, or Pikesville, Julius and his wife Etta Guggenheimer (who married
in
1903) went first to 2901 Charles Street and then to 105 Ridgewood Road
in
Roland Park.

        The house was built in 1906 and the Levys were in by 1910.  My
guess
is that they were the original owners.  They lived in the house until
their
deaths (his in 1926 and hers three years later).  His funeral,
conducted by
lots of leading rabbis, was held out of the house. Philip Kahn's book,
Uncommon Threads, suggests that service providers refused the Levys
service.
I have no other evidence of this nor do I know how they were able to
move
into restricted Roland Park.  What I do know is that Julius Levy was a
leader in the straw hat industry nationally, that he was a major force
in
both the Jewish and secular communities in Baltimore (he was a founder
of
both the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Baltimore Hebrew College, for
example), and that he was a major philanthropist.  At his death he
left
$160,000 to various charitable causes.

        I'd appreciate any insight on Etta and Julius Levy's lives in
Roland
Park from 1906 - 1929.

        Thanks!

        Jessica Elfenbein
        University of Baltimore
        410 837-5340


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